Took NCLEX Today and.....

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Took NCLEX at 1130 am today and OMG, it's something I'm sure everyone has heard already, but NCLEX was THE absolute hardest exam I've ever taken in my life.

It went off at 75Q and I had been hoping that it would go on just a little longer because I felt like what I studied was nothing that was on the test. I did the Pearson Vue Trick and got the "good pop up." I'm praying that it means I passed cause I pretty much already told everybody:woot:

Anyone in Florida got the good pop up and passed recently?

Test Specs

I got 9 SATA

4-5 Med Surg Questions (many of these were my SATA)

2 EKG strips

Maybe 7-10 priority

And A LOT, I mean A TON, I mean like 40 questions related to "quality assurance" and the business portion of healthcare

@Sugarbianca... thx!

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OMG I felt the same way like I studied my butt off and I felt like nothing I studied was on the test I had 75Q about 7 SATA, 2 EKG and the rest staff education, and quality improvement

yup, sounds like my situation too

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Hi. I got a lot of management and quality assurance question but unfortunatelly I failed, I had no idea how to answer those I had 265 about 60 on those type of qs. Do you guys have any suggestions on what source to study from or how did you prepared for those topics? Thank you and congrats!!

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Hi. I got a lot of management and quality assurance question but unfortunatelly I failed, I had no idea how to answer those I had 265 about 60 on those type of qs. Do you guys have any suggestions on what source to study from or how did you prepared for those topics? Thank you and congrats!!

@tatanata did you take a nursing leadership and management class and keep your book? If so you should review it we took it our last semester so I remembered a lot of the things if not if your school did ATI and you still have your ati books there is a nursing and leadership ati book or you can view all of the ati books online on their website also try to get Lacharity prioritization, delegation and assignment book

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Thanks @tatanata - I recommend Saunders Comprehensive Review, it comes with a cd that you could use to practice exams. Also the 35 page review that is pinned on this site was a godsend, I guarantee reviewing that helped me remember so many things I had learned and used on my test. The management questions were not totally new to me as we did many of those during the last 2 classes of nursing school and I honestly don't remember getting many on my test. If you feel like you need an in depth content review maybe you could try the NCSBN review course, its $50 for 3 weeks, $70 for 5 and there are longer ones for more money. They give you a pretty good break down of how much to cover per day and use the test plan to break down info if you just want to practice questions I think the saunders book and maybe the kaplan book will be most helpful.

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If you got "the good popup" and you finished in 75, I'm sure you passed. You would have to really tank it to fail at 75 questions. If you search for the poll on here you will see that 3,000+ got the good popup with 75 questions and passed while only in the hundreds didn't. My guess is those people tanked it.

Im in sure you know this, but NCLEX adapts the test as it goes along to how your doing. The only way it would shut off at the minimum is if A) you did good and the computer knows your competent - and remember this is a MINIMUM competency exam or B) you did so bad on the 75 questions the computer thinks you can't recover even with 265 questions.

According to the Kaplan people:

You start at your baseline and if you get one passing level right you go one above the line. If you get one wrong you go below the line. Think of a line graph like that. So if you get a ton wrong in a row and dig yourself a hole under baseline the computer basically thinks you blew it and you can't recover to not only get back to baseline but to then get enough passing levels right to go above baseline. Makes sense to me.

So with all that said congrats ;)

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